Sotomayor Protégé Draws Republican Criticism

After Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor joined the bench in 2009, one of her former clerks wrote about her dismay over her mentor’s confirmation battle.

Republicans, wrote Jenny Rivera, dragged Justice Sotomayor through a gauntlet of objections that she said were driven by ethnic stereotyping.

Now Ms. Rivera (pictured), a law professor at the City University of New York, is facing Republican scrutiny at her own confirmation hearings in Albany.

At a Senate judiciary hearing Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s first nominee for the state’s highest court was grilled by Republicans, who questioned Ms. Rivera's qualifications and raised concerns that she would engage. . . . .

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